Quotes About Competent

If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one.

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

She was good. Very, very good.

A writer absolutely has to make his villains clever and competent. It's no fun—and no challenge—for the heroes to get out of trouble without sweating about it first.

Monsters are entirely mythological, sir, like spirits, werebeasts, and competent bureaucrats.

Subramaniyam Swami is a very qualified man; whenever he speaks, he speaks something new.

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

An accomplished man to his fingertips.

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

No doubt I was getting a reputation for being efficient, but also for being somebody you could trust.

It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer.

I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.

My sister is a nice girl," Klaus said, "and she knows how to do all sorts of things.

We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men.

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.

He was a bitter little misanthrope but good with a spanner.

This is written in miserable doggerel verse. That Defoe should have mistaken it for poetry, and should have prided himself upon it accordingly, is only a proof of how incompetent an author is to pass judgment upon what is good and what is bad in his own work.

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!